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I hope they actually pursue this. He is such a sham that they need to destroy everything about him. Even the good he did was for his self gain, livestrong fans.Although more litigants are likely to emerge, prison is likely Armstrong's biggest fear.
This is generally true. However, people have a reason to cheer that Lance gets some comeuppance. He went out of his way to fuck anyone who dared to tell the truth about his means to success.It's just celebrity schadenfreude. Any time something bad happens to a famous person there is a certain group who's going to line up and cheer about it.
Kind of. I don't really buy the "It's not that he did it, it's that he LIED". You have to lie, if you were in a position where you had to choose to tell a lie or lose your entire career and means of income, you would lie too. No doper has ever come forward or admitted what he was doing while his career was still at stake unless he was caught 100% and most of them don't even admit it then (Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis). Lance being Lance he defended himself perhaps more aggressively than was absolutely necessary, but even that doesn't strike me as especially unusual.This is generally true. However, people have a reason to cheer that Lance gets some comeuppance. He went out of his way to fuck anyone who dared to tell the truth about his means to success.
A matter of opinion, I suppose. I think he was an over-the-top prick that used his fame and wealth to stomp on less fortunate people who told the truth. It's par for the course in PED cases, but that doesn't make it ok. From what I've read, Armstrong really went the extra mile to screw people. Suing for slander in favorable venues (ironically winning judgements against people speaking truth), pressuring his sponsors into blackballing people, outright threatening them verbally, using his pull to end their careers, etc.Lance being Lance he defended himself perhaps more aggressively than was absolutely necessary, but even that doesn't strike me as especially unusual.